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seven o'clock and we want to talk a little bit about sports and now sports
at seven. I'm a Super Bowl nugget. I guess it's a betting nugget
when you want it. Nine days away, nine days away from the big
game? Danny, are you pumped? Are you freaking out? Not yet?
No? Yeah, the first week of the big long Super Bowl two
week weight period. I don't even think about it. And it seems like
the news media doesn't really ramp up and till probably Sunday Monday. Yeah,
they're too worried about the Pro Bowl. I watched uh about ten minutes of
Pro Bowl mini games. What they were doing Prowl mini games? Yeah,
I was on last night. What were they doing playing that last year?
They could have been last year. I really have no idea dude, I'd
love to see Micah Parsons and Joey Bosa playing a game of Jinga. Okay,
it's just about It's about that. I saw they had a jugs machine
and I saw dude, he was holding like five footballs and his job was
to catch another punt out of the jugs machine, Like it was who could
catch the most footballs? Yeah, and he took one between his legs and
they caught it, and they're like, oh, so the Pro Bowls turned
into crap games that me and Kevio made up growing up in small towns.
It's basically the Bozo Show. Yeah, which is better than which is better
than the Pro Bowl? But then I did. They teased me going to
break with NFL closest to the pin, so I stuck around and they had
video of them. The previous day, I had some sweet golf course in
Orlando with an island green look a lot like sawgrass, and it was eight
competitors, including two Cowboys. We had Brian Anger and Jake Ferguson representing the
NFC. Two Dolphins were hiem Moosturt and Alex Ingold, but the leader for
a long time was Jake Ferguson Nice Golf Swings stuffed it to about nine feet
until Brian Anger, the punter, And we know kickers and punter, they
love pendulums so much time and they have so much time. Brian Hanger sticks
it's like two feet absolute dart. How far out are they? I think
it was, I don't know, one twenty or something. I mean,
that's my idea. I wanted to have a station event doing that, doing
the glory whole challenge. We still might someday. We're just waiting to get
rolling. You're about to get rolled, and the station's about to get wrong.
Things are about to blow up, right, yes, maybe, but
Brian Anger just absolutely gunned one in there tight and then they went to some
other dumb game and I stopped. Yeah, but it was it was fun
for a minute. I would take the Boso show and you get your quarterbacks,
you know, and they do the you got to throw it to can
one and then bucket two, Bucket three, bucket four, a little further
away, bucket five with the ping pong ball, with the football or with
the football from five yards. But that'd be too easy for them. I
think the ping pong wall would be tougher because once you get huge thirty yards
out, they're not going to hit. Oh yeah, so sixty sixty five
Okay, now now we're talking. Then you really got a hook it to
hit. Boso show would be great. I love Bozo Kevin, your thirty
six work show, your thirty six have got You probably haven't grown up in
an era where the Pro Bowl was actually kind of awesome first, like five
years of my football content, it's it was. It was like, you
know, the late the mid to late nineties. You love seeing everyone's different
helmets out there, and they actually kind of played those games tough. Okay,
but then it got real because safety, Yeah, and you have to
kind of a player of tears. Acl and missed the next year because he
got hurt in the Pro Bowl. It did. Remember Robert Edwards, Yeah,
that was on the beach though, wasn't that a Super Bowl well beach
football game? Like okay, I don't know that was part. It wasn't
in Yeah, it was on the beach. I don't know if it was
part. Robert Edward was a running back for the Patriots, who I think
he had one rookies rookie year and he was awesome. And was he blew
his knee out playing on beach. No, like I thought it was flag
football on the beach, Yeah, and not affiliated. It wasn't an event
for maybe right it was. Super Bowl was so back in the seventies eighties,
the the only incentive for the players to go to the Pro Bowl or
even show up was free trip to Hawaii. Yeah right, yeah, like
they don't. They weren't making like a big, big bonuses or a ton
of money from making the Pro Bowl back then, but they were so I
guess they're collective bargaining agreement, you know with the NFL. They were so
underpaid for what they were doing, but especially compared to now that that probably
was enticing to them. You know, yeah, sure, that's a free
trip to Hawaii. Sure, let's go scramble our brains one more time for
to hang out in Maui for three days. But it was a big deal
when I was when I was a little kid, it was a very big
deal. You watched the Pro Bowl with massive interest because you wanted to see
your guys helmets out there. Yeah. The Cowboys were always, you know,
pretty decent, even though they weren't weren't winning Super Bowls in the eighties,
they still threw a lot of dudes in that thing. You could get
your Nova check fix, you get your Doug Cosby fixed before that. So
Robert Edwards NFL rookie flag football game in Hawaii during pro Edwards barely escaped the
injury without having his leg amputated. Good grease. I was told he might
not walk again. Crazy, I am, oh, here, here's your
super Bowl nug hit me right, I was like, whoa really? So
we have the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. They will be traveling
west to play in Las Vegas. We have the San Francisco forty nine ers
who will be traveling east to play in the super Bowl. In the last
thirty years, every time that the Super Bowl has been played in a location
that is in between the two teams, one team traveling east, one team
traveling west. The team traveling west has won, okay, because they get
two extra hours. Well, I don't know if there's anything to it,
but for in thirty years, anytime the location has been in the middle of
the two teams, so the team traveling west wins every time. Vegas is
mountain time, right, I think so the forty nine Ers would be losing
one hour and the Chiefs would be gaining one hour. Okay, how many
times thirty? No, no, in the last thirty years, but it's
happened. They're seven to zero. There's a couple of real close calls,
like Saint Louis when the Rams won in New Orleans. New Orleans is like
one mile east of the still counts, Yeah, still count Do they have
any explanation, No, No, it's just it's fun. These two weeks,
people are looking for anything, and one dude just found that one.
Well, I mean last week at the Guy, I had a Andy Reid
stat or before the Chiefs and Bills game. Is Andy Reid on eight plus
days rest was like undefeated really and then like the Bills, you know,
because their game got postponed because the snow. They were going to play a
day after, so they had like six days rest and maybe that didn't make
a difference two days in between games, so you're ready. But giving Andy
Reid's teams two plus days to prepare and the just winning percentages through the roof,
he needs the extra sleep from overeating all of Pat and Jake's fast food.
He is having too, which a steak Firm, Jake's Nuggies finger walks
it. No, that's good, I do. I get that. There's
a bunch of guys out there don't want to hear this, and JJ don't
want to hear this. There's there's a big Tailor Swift element to this game
in betting. Were we need to handle that next week because it's I already
have. Let's make money on twenty five Taylor Swift prop bets that I read
and I'm not kidding. I might open an account and I want to see
she to put in like enough money where it might hurt, maybe a couple
hundred bucks each, and it might feel real good though, And we're going
to put a lot of money on Taylor Swift bets to where all you two
care about is how many times she's up. What she's wearing, Is she
holding a drink? Is the big bet? Will she make it in time?
Uh No, No, there's a big bet on what she'll be wearing
when she steps off the plane from Japan. She's gonna get there the night
before. Yeah, that's why she'll have plenty of time. Okay, because
of the massive time shift and all that. Yeah, but I kind of
like that idea. No, let's do it. Dinga's Morning News in twenty
minutes. Hope. By the way, guys, I'm Kevin, Yeah,
Danny, Mike introduce me. I didn't know how to say, just doing
that, you know, okay, just you know, so just say the
name thing, you know. The cow is defensive coordinator. Situation is interesting.
Officially it's in flux because dan Quinn took the commander's job yesterday. Leading
candidate right off the top. Probably not a household name. His name is
Joe Witt Junior. He was dan Quinn's passing game coordinator, kind of right
hand man, was with him and Atlanta. He uh. Joe Witt Junior
was defensive backs coaching Green Bay for all the McCarthy years, tons of connections.
Doesn't it make sense that since Jerry decided to stick with with coach Mike
and not you know, create a big upheaval and turnover and coaching staff,
that they'll probably just promote someone in house. Okay, well, this is
this is where this is interesting. This is going a lot different. Yes,
that's the chalk play. You just hired Joe Witt. Okay, but
Joe Witt could take a promotion to be the defensive coordinator of the Commanders,
to the point of Joe Whitt is going to interview with the Cowboys, and
he is going to interview with the Commanders because he's not a defensive coordinator right
now, so he should. Now, before we get too deep into this,
I want to say a couple things. Mike McCarthy should get saying this.
He has ruined that when he brought in Mike Nolan in twenty twenty.
Okay, and you're one of his coaching tenure and the team imploded. Now
Dak got hurt. But the amount of and there was multiple Jane Slater reports
on this, the amount of inner turmoil on the defensive side of the ball.
Some of it related to Jalen Smith had something to do with Mike Nolan.
Too bad. Hire should have never happened that. Mike has no say.
He's also lame duck head coach now not gonna get a contract extension in
his fifth year. So macarthy's O there going, man, I hope they
don't hire someone who could take my job, probably because I would like to
get an extension. We're gonna win a bunch of games next year. But
he's not gonna get a lot to say in this. Jeff said something yesterday
on the speakeasy and I was gonna pull up but it was kind of longer.
But I'm gonna give you all cliffs notes on it, and I kind
of agree with him. The number one Jeff does not want retreads, and
he said, the number one thing that we need is someone who if we
game plan all week for something and then we learn in the first quarter that
we were out game planned and we got smacked in the face like we did
in the playoff game, I need someone who's got answers in forty seconds,
like we need to adjust on the fly, not wait, keep doing what
we're doing. And I agree. And the person that I think is that
person, the world is gonna scream and shout and say you're an idiot.
They do that. The person who is that person is the guy who did
cool stuff defensively, but his team had already quit on him, so it
doesn't matter. It's Brandon Staley. Brandon Staley as just a defensive coach is
great. Now he ask him to be a head coach and make decisions.
E no, no, no, terrible, don't do that. But defense
just coach the defense do cool stuff with them? Yes, and we give
up seventy points to the Raiders that one game the team quit. We'll provide
a little context for people that might not know who that is. Ri says
the coach of the Chargers, who got fired, and he and what's the
rub on him? Well, the rub on him is he became a bit
of a joke because he was very aggressive, analytical guy, went for it
on fourth down a lot this year. He got fired when they went five
and twelve. Justin Herbert got hurt. They quit trying on defense. I
mean it was bad. He got ugly, but he is a defensive coordinator.
Only seem like Cliff Kingsbury is your offensive coordinator. Is probably not bad
as your head coach. We probably don't want that. Yeah, it's that
type of thing. Here's what we know though. A couple of things,
so touch you about Joe Witt. Trayvon Dick's sweets out Al Harris for defensive
coordinator. Did he really he did? Which is that something against Joe Witt?
Is it maybe Trayvon's saying, well, that's his guy too, Well,
Joe Witz, their guy Too's the passing game coordinator? He's the secondary
coach. But Joe Witt has been on uh Quinn's hip for a for a
long time, as has Aiden Derdey. Right, yeah, and he's a
he's a Canada, Canada. He's interviewed with some other teams too, but
only think it's more likely that those two guys, if not being given the
DC job, would go with him. Maybe also would go with Quinn to
Washington. And then you're kind of gutted. Well, and also what happens
when your head coach gets fired. Most of the time, coaching staffs get
bombarded when you know your head coach is one year left. Okay, well,
let's not look at it from the what McCarthy wants perspective, because unless
they get to the NFC title game or whatever the hell the deal is,
he's gone anyway. Right, I'm talking about a job security perspective, because
you could easily go Washington's a worse job than Dallas. You can easily say
that, but Washington well offers more job security than Dallas. You go to
coach for Dan Quinch. So what you're saying is he's a lame duck coach.
The chances are are are good that he's going to be gone after this
year anyway. So anybody you do bring in is going to clean house.
No one on your staff has any job security now. But if those two
guys went an AID and go to Washington, then they got a few years.
Yeah, yeah, two or three? Maybe you know, why don't
we just get vable? That's what I keep wondering there. Here's what we
know. Ron Rivera is meeting with the Cowboys next week. I don't hate
that. That does not feel fun, and I don't know why I didn't.
No, it doesn't feel fun. But no, you're right, you
shouldn't have hated it. But everyone shoulder slumps when you hear that, I
think, because it's just the same way that I bet Washington Radio is shoulder
slump that Dan Quinn is their new head coach because it's not all that fun.
And the dude famously got annihilated at the end of a Super Bowl and
you've been with the Cowboys. That's kind of a ugh. I guarantee no
one's really like. And the taste that you leave in everybody's mouths is your
defensive performance on the last game that you coached here, and it got out
that the guy they wanted told him, no, I'm going to stay and
be an offensive coordinator. Ben Johnson the lines, So yeah, it feels
like a fallback option. So you would have also there off there too.
They're probably going, I don't want another defensive coordinator to be my bad coach.
I want the offensive You know, Well, Johnson's probably in the same
mindset that Dan Quinn was last year with the Cowboys. Hey, look what
we did. Let's roll it out again and see what happens. You get
smashed in the mouth in the first round and kicked out of the playoffs by
Green Bay. It's like, I don't really want to go back and do
this again. I need a fresh start, you said Mike Vrabel. Mike
Rabel friends with Steven Jones. They're on the competition committee together, so at
least they know like what he's like to work with on a day to day
basis for that time. Makes that seems logical if you are projecting that the
hire would be, uh have a good chance to be the next head coach.
You know, I'm of this team, I'm interested in Rabel. Mikey,
is that kind of where you're thinking, Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I don't care what McCarthy thinks. And if he wants someone that's non
threat, I don't care. And they don't either go to the super Bowl.
You're fine, Jerry doesn't care. Yeah, they don't care about that
for sure. And that's why Rabel's interesting for no reason. Also, I
kind of think they need a little hard ass, you know, they need
someone who's like, no, no more dumb penalties. We're not doing it
like Gonna. Carthy's not that guy. You know. Mike Zimmer is sixty
seven and he is a candidate. I don't even know why, but I'm
just saying no, you know, yeah, like I don't. I don't
just know. Sure, I'm with you on that. I don't. I
don't want Rivera. Zimmer doesn't do much for me. Now. Al Harris
is interesting. You already have you know, one of your best defensive players
tweeting out make him the DC very interesting. The only thing that they would
say is, if you're going to hire Al Harris as your DC, why
wouldn't you make Joe Witt your DC who has experienced calling plays right, so
more and more experienced than and a little more experience. And then you're still
promoting Al Harris, you know, and maybe dan Quinn goes, I'll go
make Al Harris my DC. And if that, if you think that's gonna
happen, then you you know, you got to take your pick. Who
do you like more, Joe Whitter or Al Harris. But you know,
Joe and Joe Witt coached Dal Harris, you know in Green Bay, you
know, back in the day. Joe it's forty five. He's not like
he's been around a long time. But he's not like he's some retread like
this would and it would kind of have continuity with your defense. I think
the guys will like him. He's very calm. He did an interview back
in October. It was kind of interesting talking about how dan Quinn's more in
the moment and how he's like he never celebrates anything so and kind of why
they work together so well. Like if drown Bland gets a pick six and
then he's got to be on the kickoff team, Joe Witz the one while
dan Quinn's yelling and high five, and you know, Joe Whit's the one
who's like yelling down to fossil on the sideline, Yo, get Bland off
the kickoff team on this kickoff he's so he can get a breather because he's
about to kickoff and then go cover people. Yeah, so like he just
had a pick six, Like that's that's the that's the thinking ahead aspect,
that kind of looking for here, and that would be my pick. Like
right now, I would hire Joe Witt today. That's me. But I
don't know these people and don't interview them, But that's what I would do
if I could, though, if I could, But you know, you
do risk. You're probably gonna lose some of these dudes. That's why dan
Quinn leaving is bad. That's why they're probably gonna lose these dudes to wash,
probably both of them. Ye, well two of the three. I
would say it between dirty yeah, yeah, a dirty and wit yeah and
dirty they all love too. And then if you do go out of Harris
that's a fairly what inexperienced right yeah. Defensive coordinator Yeah, I mean Rabel
was the NFL Coach of the Year in twenty twenty one. Yeah, And
it's your stars fall quickly in this league, but they need a hard ass.
I do believe that one hundred per one hundred percent. Yeah, Dame
McCarthy's mood. It's not he's not and that if if they don't succeed,
then he's just such an obvious replacement head coach then, And I guess,
pending how the defense does in the upcoming season, that will determine how the
fan base feels about it. Yeah, because right now, Vrabel doesn't sound
like the sexiest hire, I guess, but if their defense is dominant and
has some twists that we didn't even see, and they you know, are
anywhere near as good as they were for the last couple of years as turn
up with turnovers, it would make sense slide rabelin. I kind of think
it's gonna be Ron Rivera, really. I mean, I think the Vegas
pick that chalk phase Joe Witt. Rabel's probably the long shot. Al Harris
is probably a long shot Ron Rivera, So I think they'll pick I don't
love it. I did not love that at all. That's what they do
if they're bringing him in, Like, why would you waste all this time?
You would just hire the guy who's ready to go, and Joe Witt,
you would just do it, and you would promote Al Harrison, try
to keep them both. They're gonna this is this is not. They'll mess
it up. The hot Dog Boys will mess it up. Come on,
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